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Freeform raises $14M to build an AI-powered 3D printing factory
- Freeform Future Corp. raises $14 million in funding for AI-powered 3D printing factory.
- Funding comes from Nvidia Corp.'s NVentures fund and Boeing Co.'s AE Ventures.
- Freeform's 3D printers are powered by AI software to ensure fault-free metal parts production.
- The company plans to increase production capacity, develop faster 3D printers, and expand material processing capabilities.
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Equity Securities
- Equity security is owned by an equity partner of an organization formed as LLC, C-Corp, S-Corp, etc.
- In public markets, many companies only have equity security as common stock on their balance sheet.
- Preferred Stock is an equity security with certain economic rights and preferences, or privileges, over common stock.
- Liquidation Preference is paid first to the preferred stockholders after debt holders and typically reflects the total sum capital contributed by the preferred stockholders.
- Conversion Rights, or the ability to convert their preferred stock share for a share of common stock, allows preferred stockholders to maintain their parity.
- Dividends afford the preferred shareholder a method to accrue value over time.
- Conversion Ratio is defined as the OIP / conversion price and can be negotiated by reducing the conversion price.
- Participation bridges the gap between liquidation preference and conversion rights with full participation being rare.
- A participation cap will be negotiated to allow for equal upper end of positive returns but still allows preferred stock to receive some extra benefit in the middle.
- Preferred stock would elect to convert to common, and the total distribution would be split pro rata between common and preferred, if the distribution out to common would result in a higher per value share of common stock than preferred.
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Behind the Term Sheet: Ghost’s $40M Series C
- Ghost, a platform for selling excess inventory, has raised $40m in Series C funding round, with L Catterton and LVMH leading the investment. The funding comes from top-tier commerce and marketplace VCs Union Square Ventures, Eniac and Equal Ventures among others. The company has evolved to a trusted partner for brands to sell wholesale goods to each other, moving beyond selling off-price items. The company intends to use the funding to help brands list and sell their excess inventory and other mainline products using machine learning and AI.
- Ghost has raised new funding every nine to 12 months and is scaling and improving its product. The company boasts of a large TAM, high NPS, great unit economics and a clear flywheel strategy. The company's new areas of business development include its growth in distributing products beyond off-price and advancements in machine learning and AI. Working with A-team talent such as a head of product and CFO has unlocked leverage for both founders and the company overall.
- L Catterton is an attractive partner to help Ghost scale due to the firm's portfolio of brands and retail relationships worldwide. Ghost has proven valuable to some of L Catterton's brands whom Ghost already partners. The firm understands Ghost's business and offers a perspective into the growth required for a company at the growth-stage and how to achieve escape velocity.
- Ghost co-founders Josh Kaplan and Dee Murthy say they want to be the destination for products worldwide and solve problems plaguing the retail industry. Ghost believes every brand in the world is under-distributed and aims to connect buyers and sellers to ensure every product finds a home.
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How to conduct effective employee background checks!!
- People2profit introduces comprehensive background check services for organizations.
- Background checks help mitigate risks, protect reputation, and ensure a safe workplace.
- Services include identity verification, criminal records checks, and degree certificate verification.
- Background checks are important in the selection process and for information security.
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The Notebook of Leonardo da Vinci, The Codex Arundel
- The Codex Arundel is one of the most important collections of Leonardo da Vinci’s manuscripts, preserved in British Library.
- The manuscript is a compilation of papers, written between 1478 and 1518, offering a glimpse into da Vinci’s intellectual processes, scientific inquiries, and technological innovations.
- The Codex Arundel consists of 283 paper folios of various sizes, bound together after Leonardo’s death, offering diverse range of subjects, reflecting Leonardo’s diverse intellectual interests.
- The codex contains numerous studies of mechanical devices, engineering principles, water flow, wave patterns, and hydraulic systems.
- Leonardo's work reflects the Renaissance ideal of the 'Universal Man' by comfortably working across multiple disciplines.
- His empirical approach, focusing on observation and experiment rather than received wisdom, helped lay the groundwork for the scientific revolution that would follow in the next century.
- The significance of Codex Arundel extends far beyond its historical value and continues to influence modern understanding in several ways.
- The preservation and digitization of the Codex Arundel represent significant efforts in manuscript conservation making it available online for worldwide study of Leonardo’s work directly.
- The Codex Arundel stands as one of the most important documents in the history of science and technology, offering unique insights into the mind of Leonardo da Vinci and the development of modern scientific thought.
- As we continue to study and learn from the Codex Arundel, new insights emerge about both Leonardo’s specific contributions and broader process of scientific discovery.
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The Services as Software Revolution
- Services dominate the US economy, accounting for 72% of GDP and over 80% of household spend.
- Venture investors have been hesitant to invest in pure services companies due to high labor costs and slow scaling.
- However, the rise of artificial intelligence is overcoming these obstacles by automating tasks and increasing productivity.
- AI-powered services are more efficient, scalable, and offer significant opportunities for billion-dollar companies.
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Groq’s inference strategy
- Groq is a chip company focused on pairing memory and compute to speed up inference for AI models.
- The core of Groq’s inference strategy is its “SRAM-only” architecture, eliminating the need for external memory like GDDR or HBM.
- While Groq’s approach to inference is promising, its implementation raises further questions.
- Groq must carefully navigate the challenges of cost, power consumption, and scalability to secure a place in the rapidly evolving landscape of AI inference.
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Mastering Your Differentiation Slide: Stand Out Without Falling into Common Traps
- Often underestimated by the competition, feature comparison checklists waste valuable space and do not fully convey transformative potential or unique value propositions. An approach better than a checklist is to focus on what makes a solution genuinely different, beginning with a restatement of the problem and a showcase of 10x ROI customer solutions. Additionally, focus on demonstrating how the problem has been solved historically and how quantum-leap forward innovations can place investors on a path towards encouraging solutions. It is important to note that the moat is not fully developed at the beginning,; showing the plan that gets you there is crucial. Case studies can be useful, but omitting or overusing them can cause founders to meander or oversaturate a pitch.
- Instead of addressing the competition in a checklist form, acknowledge the competitive landscape for the market as a whole and demonstrate why your approach is a quantum leap forward without naming specific players. For the existing competition of an obvious player, it is appropriate to address differences; however, before showcasing those, an intellectual honesty should be carried out.
- The differentiation slide is essential for showcasing why solutions are uniquely positioned to solve specific problems for customers and how this solution will provide difficult-to-replicate benefits. When evolving from seed to a more mature stage, anticipate the differentiation story's potential to evolve and learn how this story will increasingly become supported by data, market traction and concrete examples of how solutions will outperform alternatives.
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When Growth Slows, Watch Out for Fake Marketing On The Team
- Fake Marketing refers to marketing activities that may seem like they matter but don't actually generate significant results.
- Examples of Fake Marketing include digital events with low attendance, podcasts with limited listenership, poorly attended side events, and excessive focus on social media platforms such as LinkedIn and TikTok.
- Instead of Fake Marketing, effective strategies for driving growth include having more meetings with prospects, organizing in-person gatherings of customers and prospects, being present at industry events and channels, implementing high-quality outbound marketing with extensive research, and nurturing partnerships and channels for customer acquisition.
- Marketing teams should focus on generating qualified pipeline and ensuring that the time and energy invested in marketing activities are worthwhile.
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Announcing our investment in CrewAI; powering the future of AI in the enterprise with multi-agent…
- CrewAI, an open source framework, enables developers to orchestrate AI agents into teams and automate complex processes.
- CrewAI has gained massive adoption, powering over 100 million multi-agent systems in 150 countries and being used by more than 50% of Fortune 500 companies.
- The company has launched CrewAI Enterprise and partnered with companies like IBM.
- CrewAI is contributing to the future of software through agentic systems, and they are actively hiring.
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Stream.Security secures $30M to enhance AI-powered cloud threat management
- Cloud security solutions startup Stream.Security has raised $30 million in funding.
- The funding will be used for research and development to enhance the company's AI-powered platform.
- Stream.Security's platform offers real-time cloud threat and exposure management solutions.
- The company has experienced over 400% growth in the past year.
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Hue raises $4.5M to expand AI-powered video platform for e-commerce
- Hue Beauty Inc. raises $4.5 million in funding to expand its AI-powered video platform for e-commerce.
- Hue helps brands embed shoppable videos on their e-commerce websites using AI-powered technology.
- The platform boosts engagement and conversion rates by providing personalized, user-generated video content.
- Investors in the seed round include Fika Ventures, Underscore VC, and Sequoia Scouts.
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Paccurate helps companies ship in smaller boxes, saving them money while helping the earth
- Paccurate co-founders James Malley and Patrick Powers created software to help companies reduce empty space in packaging boxes and optimize shipping.
- Their software, Paccurate, uses cartonization to determine the most cost-effective and sustainable way to ship items based on size, weight, and packaging requirements.
- Paccurate experienced significant growth during the COVID e-commerce boom and raised an $8.1 million Series A funding round to meet the increased demand.
- Regulations requiring boxes to be at least 50% full have been implemented in the European Union and proposed in certain U.S. states, driving the need for better packaging optimization solutions.
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Q3 2024 Quarterly Emerging Sector Analysis
- Q3 2024 sector-specific reports reveal media & entertainment, gaming, generative AI, crypto, and spatial computing topped the innovation spectrum.
- M&A activity in the media & entertainment sector is up 51% YoY for the 3rd consecutive quarter, with an increasing convergence of content generation, data & identity, and marketing automation, driven by AI.
- In gaming, there has been little growth YoY. Private funding in gaming reached $811 million in Q3 2024, marking a 15% increase from the previous quarter; AI-related companies attracted 22% of total funding in Q3.
- Generative AI has become the talk of the town, enterprises have recognized its value and are investing more heavily. However, concerns around data management, risk mitigation, governance, and value measurement slow down its adoption.
- Cryptocurrency usage and activity have reached all-time highs, indicating growing mainstream adoption and increased utility of blockchain technologies; stablecoins and Defi are the most popular uses for crypto today.
- Spatial computing is experiencing an upturn due to increased availability of head-mounted devices, and the market is expected to reach USD 280.5 billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 23.4% from 2023.
- Apple and Meta emerged as market leaders of the spatial computing space; Meta has the most affordable and popular VR headset, the Meta Quest, and is working on project Orion, revolutionary new AR glasses.
- The convergence of these sectors, particularly through AI integration, creates unprecedented opportunities for ambitious founders.
- Remagine Ventures is excited to back early-stage founders building at these intersections and welcomes innovative startups in the space to partner with.
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Q3 Wrapped
- Spain-based Tuio, an AI-first insurance company that offers products including those for pets and life and home coverages, raised €15m ($17.5m) in a series A funding round led by QED Investors. Participants in the round included BAMCAP and BlackRock, as well as existing investors. The funds raised are expected to be used for Tuio's expansion into other Southern European markets, as well as developing new products with a focus on customer experience and operational efficiency through advanced technologies.
- India- and US-based Qure.ai is looking to expand the use of artificial intelligence to detect diseases, following a $65m Series D funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company has used its AI-powered software to detect brain tumours, tuberculosis and Covid-19 among other diseases and has already earned regulatory approval in some countries. The new funding round is expected to help Qure.ai develop its products further.
- Indebted, an Australian company which uses a chat-based service to help people pay off debt, raised AUD65m ($47.7m) in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Airtree, with participation from existing investors including Reinventure Group and Carthona Capital, among others. Indebted plans to use the proceeds to launch in the UAE and Mexico next month, while expanding into South America and Europe at a later stage.
- Cancer diagnostic provider Qritive announced its collaboration with Roche, allowing pathologists to utilise AI technology within its navify® Digital Pathology platform. The technology aims to improve diagnostic accuracy while also speed up diagnosis and treatment times.
- See-Mode Technologies has received clearance for its ultrasound imaging artificial intelligence software from the US FDA. The AI, one of the most comprehensive to have been approved, is used for the detection and diagnosis of thyroid problems within its scans. The software was used to successfully identify the presence of Covid-19 in clinical studies, according to the company.
- Fertility and reproductive health start-up Daye will partner with UK fertility community IVFN, in a joint bid to further fertility research through the use of technology. Daye is known for its plant-based menstrual care products, as well as its innovative use of technology to enhance reproductive health outcomes.
- Market research firm Milieu Insight appointed Sundip Chahal as CEO. Chahal previously was global COO at YouGov, where he grew the team from 15 to 3,000 across 60 countries. He is expected to use his industry expertise to galvanise Milieu's role as a major player in the market research industry.
- Sugar.fit was named Health Tech Start-up of the Year at the 2024 Entrepreneur India Awards. The start-up provides assistance to diabetes sufferers through the use of proprietary tech, wearables and remote coaching.
- Treehouse has launched a new product to its ecosystem. tETH is a fully crypto interest asset that unifies fragmented on-chain interest rates, thereby streamlining yield-based blockchain financial products.
- Zluri, a specialist provider of software-as-a-service management platforms, was identified as a leader in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant reports. The company is recognised as leading when it comes to executing its SaaS services. This point was raised by one customer, who stated that Zluri offers “one of the most comprehensive solutions in the market.
- Venture capital firm QED Investors has invested in Tuio’s €15m ($17.5m) Series A funding round alongside BlackRock and BAMCAP. Tuio is a Spanish insurtech that leverages artificial intelligence to offer products such as coverages for pets, life and home. The insurtech will use the money to grow its customer base and develop new products.
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